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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: How does Caspian Sea demarcation affect Iran?
Description: The Caspian Sea is the biggest enclosed body of water on earth, but depending who you ask, it’s either the largest lake in the world or a small inland sea.
Either way, it has been a source of conflict among the five countries it borders — Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan — for the last 20 years. A recent gathering of the five countries might have resolved some of the legal matters.
And as Robin Mills wrote for The National this week, a weakened Iran might have been left out on the ensuing oil rush in the re...